Literature year 1664
1660 | Literature year 1664
Overview of the literature
years Further events
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Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales by François de La Rochefoucauld
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Events
The printer Abraham Lichtenthaler founds an office in Sulzbach , in which u. a. a number of writings by Jewish authors and works in Hebrew script will be published.
New releases
Periodicals
- The Gazzetta di Mantova , a daily newspaper for the city and province of Mantua , is founded. The newspaper is considered one of the oldest still existing daily newspapers in the world.
- The Magdeburgische Zeitung was owned by the Faber family until 1939 . It appeared uninterrupted from 1664 to 1944, when it was merged with the Nazi newspaper “Der Mitteldeutsche - Neues Magdeburger Tageblatt”.
Scientific works, essays
- The first authorized edition of François de La Rochefoucauld's maxims and reflections , which was predated to 1665, appears in 1664 after an incorrect pirated print based on a collection of his aphorisms made by La Rochefoucauld that circulated among his friends had already been published in the Netherlands in 1663 .
- Fourteen years after his death, René Descartes ' first comprehensive work is published under the title Le Monde (The World). The book, printed by Michel Bobin and Nicolas LeGras in Paris, contains essays Traité de l`homme and Traité de la lumière ou le monde under the joint title Le Monde Descartes . Descartes had already largely completed the work in 1633 when he learned of Galileo's condemnation for advocating the heliocentric world system. Thereupon he decided not to publish it. The text, which is not completely preserved, comes from the estate.
- Athanasius Kircher : Mundus Subterraneus . 1664.
Novels, short stories
- The first two Contes of La Fontaine , "Joconde" and "Le Cocu battu et content" will be published in Paris in Clauce Barbin.
drama
The Palais Royal under Louis XIV . The theater is to the right of the entrance
- John Dryden : Les femmes rivales
- Premiere of Molière's Tartuffe in Versailles .
- June 20th Premiere of La Thébaïde, ou les frères ennemis , tragedy in 5 acts by Jean Racine , at the Palais Royal in Paris
- 31 July Premiere of Pierre Corneille's tragedy Othon in front of the court of Louis XIV in Fontainebleau
Born
- January 20 : Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina , Italian writer and lawyer, co-founder of the Accademia dell'Arcadia († 1718 )
- March 4 : Fran Krsto Frankopan , Croatian poet († 1671 )
- July 21 : Matthew Prior , English writer and diplomat († 1721 )
- November 9 : Henry Wharton : English author and librarian († 1695 )
- November 16 : Abraham Alewijn, Dutch playwright and poet of song texts († 1721 )
Died
- February 5 : Christen Aagaard , Danish poet (* 1616 )
- February 11 : Balthasar Venator : humanist, neo-Latin poet and satirist (* 1594 )
- July 16 : Andreas Gryphius , German poet ( 1616 )
- November 17th : Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt , French writer and translator (* 1606 ).
- Exact date of death unknown
- Silvio Stampiglia : Italian poet and librettist (* 1725 )
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